The adjective, however, is used by the poets from Ennius on (_Sc_ 254 & 392 Vahlen3), particularly in the phrases _mens aegra_ and _animus aeger_, to indicate a state of mental anguish. Compare, from Ovid, _Tr_ III viii 33-34 'nec melius ualeo quam corpore mente, sed aegra est / utraque pars aeque', _Tr_ IV iii 21, IV vi 43 & V ii 7, _EP_ I iii 89-90 'uereor ne ... frustra ... iuuer admota perditus _aeger ope_', I v 18 & I vi 15 'tecum tunc aberant _aegrae solacia_ mentis', and _Ibis_ 115; from other poets, compare _Cons ad Liuiam_ 395, Hor _Ep_ I viii 8, and _Aen_ I 208 & IV 35. The same use of the adjective is found occasionally in the historians (Sallust _Iug_ 71 2, Livy II 3 5, etc). =19. LONGA DIES= = _tempus_. Compare _Met_ I 346, _Met_ XIV 147-48 (the Sibyl to Aeneas) 'tempus erit cum de tanto me corpore paruam / _longa dies_ faciet', and _Tr_ I v 11-14 'spiritus et uacuas prius hic tenuandus in auras / ibit ... quam subeant animo meritorum obliuia nostro, / et _longa_ pietas excidat ista _die_'. =19. VVLNERA MENTIS.= Ovid is fond of this metaphorical sense of _uulnus_; see _Met_ V 425-27 'Cyane ... inconsolabile _uulnus_ / _mente_ gerit tacita', _Tr_ IV iv 41-42 'neue retractando nondum coeuntia rumpam / _uulnera_: uix illis proderit ipsa quies', _EP_ I iii 87-88 'nec tamen infitior, si possent nostra coire / _uulnera_, praeceptis posse coire tuis', and _EP_ I v 23 'parcendum est animo miserabile _uulnus_ habenti'. To judge from Seneca, the metaphor was usual in treatises of consolation: 'antiqua mala in memoriam reduxi et, ut scires [_Schultess_: uis scire _codd_] hanc quoque plagam esse sanandam, ostendi tibi aeque magni _uulneris_ cicatricem' (_Cons Marc_ 1 5), 'itaque utcumque conabar manu super plagam meam imposita ad obliganda _uulnera_ uestra reptare' (_Cons Hel_ 1 1). =20. FOVET= _Heinsius_ MOVET _codd_. For the meaning of _fouet_ see at 4 _fouisti_ (p 361). _Mouet_ here is to some extent supported by Ovid's use of such verbs as _tangere_ and _tractare_ in contexts like that of the present passage; compare _EP_ I vi 21-22 'nec breue nec tutum peccati quae sit origo / scribere; _tractari uulnera_ nostra timent', _EP_ II vii 13, and _EP_ III vii 25-26 'curando fieri quaedam maiora uidemus / uulnera, quae melius non _tetigisse_ fuit'. But _tractare_ and _tangere_ are neutral in force, while _mouet_ here would mean 'disturb', as at Hor _Carm_ III xx 1-2 'Non uides quanto _moueas_ periclo, / Pyrrhe, Gaetulae catulos leaenae?' and Lucan VIII 529-30 'bustum cineresque _mouere_ / Thessalicos audes bellumque in regna uocare?'. As Professor R. J. Tarrant comments, if _mouet_ were read in the present passage, _intempestiue_ would lose the appropriateness it has when _fouet_ is read: there is no proper time to "disturb" a wound. =20. NOVAT.= Similar phrasing at _Tr_ II 209 'nam non sum tanti _renouem_ ut tua _uulnera_, Caesar' and _RA_ 729-30 'admonitu refricatur amor, _uulnusque nouatum_ / scinditur'.